Tomás Navarro Tomás
Tomás Navarro Tomás | |
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Tomás Navarro Tomás in 1926 | |
| Born | 12 April 1884 |
| Died | 16 September 1979 (aged 95) Northampton, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist, writer, librarian |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Valencia Universidad Central de Madrid |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Phonetics and phonology |
| Institutions | Centro de Estudios Históricos Biblioteca Nacional de España Columbia University |
| Seat h of the Real Academia Española | |
| In office 19 May 1935 – 16 September 1979 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Cortezo |
| Succeeded by | Emilio Lorenzo |
Tomás Navarro Tomás (12 April 1884 – 16 September 1979) was a Spanish philologist, librarian and linguist.
His work in the field of Spanish Philology is one of the key contributions to the Spanish Scientific modernization movement of the twentieth century that took place in the Center of Historical Studies (Centro de Estudios Históricos, CEH by its initials in Spanish). He is considered one of Professor Ramón Menéndez Pidal's dearest students.
He was also an academic with the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia de Española RAE by its initials in Spanish) and Director of the National Library before he fled Spain with other Republican intellectuals to the United States in 1939 where he founded the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Academia Norte Americana de la Lengua Espanola ANLE by its initials in Spanish)